Caesar's Messiah: The Roman Conspiracy to Invent Jesus:Flavian Signature Edition Read Online Free PDF Page A

Titus could not force the Zealots, even through torture or death, to call him Lord.
    Josephus noted the staunchness with which the Zealots adhered to their monotheistic faith, stating that the Sicarii “ do not value dying and any kind of death, nor indeed do they heed the dying of their relations, nor can any fear make them call any man Lord.” 8
    As I noted in the Introduction, to circumvent the Jews’ stubbornness, Titus designed a hidden message within the Gospels. This message reveals that the “Jesus” who interacted with the disciples following the crucifixion was not a Jewish Messiah, but himself. Unable to torture the Jews into foregoing their religion and worshiping him, Titus and his intellectuals created a version of Judaism that worshiped Titus without its followers knowing it. When his clever literary device was finally discovered, Titus would be able to show posterity that he had not failed in his efforts to make the Jews call him “Lord.” Though always seen as a religious document, the New Testament is actually a political document – a monument to the vanity of a Caesar, one that has finally been discovered.
    Titus backdated Jesus’ ministry to 30 C.E., thereby enabling him to foresee events in the future. In other words, Jesus was able to accurately prophesy events from the coming war with the Romans because they had already occurred. As part of this scheme, the fictitious histories of Josephus were created so as to document the fact that Jesus had lived and that his prophecies had come to pass.
    While the above claims will, and should, trigger skepticism, one needs to remember that as Christianity describes its origins, it was not only supernatural but also historically illogical. Christianity, a movement that encouraged pacifism and obedience to Rome, claims to have emerged from a nation engaged in a century-long struggle with Rome. An analogy to Christianity’s purported origins might be a cult established by Polish Jews during World War II that set up its headquarters in Berlin and encouraged its members to pay taxes to the Third Reich.
    When one looks at the form of early Christianity, one sees not Judea, but Rome. The church’s structures of authority, its sacraments, its college of bishops, the title of the head of the religion - the supreme pontiff - were all based on Roman, not Judaic, traditions. Somehow, Judea left little trace on the form of a religion that purportedly originated inside of it.
    Early Christianity was also Roman in its worldview. That is, like the Roman Empire, the movement saw itself as ordained by God to spread throughout the world. Before Christianity, no religion is known to have seen itself quite so destined to conquer, to become the religion of all mankind. The type of Judaism described in the Dead Sea Scrolls, for example, was very selective as to who was allowed to join its community, as the following passage from the Damascus Document shows:
     
     No madman, or lunatic, or simpleton, or fool, or blind man, or maimed, or lame, or deaf man, and no minor shall enter into the community for the Angels of Holiness are with them … 9
     
    This exclusionary approach was the mirror opposite of Christianity. In comparing the text below to its mirror above, notice that the Gospels’ author seems to have made a comical editorial decision. He chose to render the “madmen, lunatics, simpletons, and fools” who came to Jesus simply as “many others”.
     
And great multitudes came unto him, having with them those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and cast them down at Jesus’ feet; and he healed them. 10
     
    To try to understand how Christianity established itself within the Roman Empire is to sift through mysteries piled atop the unknown. For example, how did a religion that began as verbal traditions in Hebrew or Aramaic change into one whose surviving scripture is written almost entirely in Greek?  According to Albert